Installation Guide

Setting up serial access to the Linux console

Partitioning an SD card

You can store the file system on an SD card. To do this, you need to have the right partitions setup on the SD card. These steps will create two partitions, the second one is used to hold the target file system.

Setting up a TFTP server

Setting up an NFS server

For application development, it is convenient to use root NFS mount file system for the target hardware. This allows you to rebuild your application on the host and immediately run the application on the target hardware with no interveining steps. You host PC needs to be configured as a NFS server for this to work.

Checking out the binary images

If you simply want to run the pre-built versions of the Linux kernel using the pre-built file system, then start by downloading the pre-built images from 're not able to use the SDK you could download the pre-built images.

Saving pre-built kernel and file system on target hardware

In order to boot the OMAP35x from an SD you must follow the following steps:

1. First, format an SD Card with 2 partitions; in the first one use a FAT32 format with 32Mb of size and with the boot flag enabled, the second one partition with the rest of the SD Card, called rootfs, must have an EXT3 format as is described in Creating a bootable SDcard

2. Copy the u-boot image, x-loader image (must be called MLO into the SD) and the kernel image located in <PathofYourSDK>/images into the partion named boot: